I'm a new user, but did search the forums for "granite," and it returned nothing. If this topic has been covered, please forgive me.
While I am aware that one particular company offers a "palette" of granite colors, we don't use their software. They also seem to offer a limited selection of granite colors. We need more.
Is there a way to create a palette for inkscape using .jpg "swatches" (for lack of a better term)? Let's say I have a square in a .jpg format that depicts a color of granite and its respective grain pattern. How can I turn that square into a .gpl so that it can be applied as "fill" for a monument that we design, and import into inkscape?
All I can locate thus far (even in videos) depicts solid colors. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Can you upload an sample of jpg swatch ? (paperclip icon bottom left when you reply).
To me, if you want a textured fill with granite texture, the quickest will be to use a jpg image as a pattern, as explains Tyler in this post.
Otherwise if you want a true vector pattern, you could try to use filters to add a texture to a plain color (not sure it would respect the colors you wish, and filters are resulting in bitmaps, actually)
@GSolutions and @Paddy_CAD thanks for the responses. I'm so new that the learning curve is quite steep for me, especially overlays, blends, and "clipping mask." @David248 I'll try attaching a couple of swatches for reference. As you can see, there are not only different colors, the "grain" is also different for different types of granite. Meanwhile, I'll be educating myself on what all three of you have presented.
Imho, granite is at least 3 color (black mica, white feldspar, greyish quartz, here an additional pink potassic feldspar). Might be difficult to get a good result by overlaying a color to a texture.
The gneissic sample looks simplier.
Did you try the bitmap pattern I was talking about ? (Select image, do object > object to pattern : image then becomes a rectangle filled with a bitmap pattern (open fill and stroke pattern, tab fill) : this pattern can be reused with any other path.
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I'm a new user, but did search the forums for "granite," and it returned nothing. If this topic has been covered, please forgive me.
While I am aware that one particular company offers a "palette" of granite colors, we don't use their software. They also seem to offer a limited selection of granite colors. We need more.
Is there a way to create a palette for inkscape using .jpg "swatches" (for lack of a better term)? Let's say I have a square in a .jpg format that depicts a color of granite and its respective grain pattern. How can I turn that square into a .gpl so that it can be applied as "fill" for a monument that we design, and import into inkscape?
All I can locate thus far (even in videos) depicts solid colors. Any help is greatly appreciated.
David C.
Delta Monument Services
Hello
Inkscape is vector, the colors are solid and full. If you want texture, use clipping mask .
Hello
Can you upload an sample of jpg swatch ? (paperclip icon bottom left when you reply).
To me, if you want a textured fill with granite texture, the quickest will be to use a jpg image as a pattern, as explains Tyler in this post.
Otherwise if you want a true vector pattern, you could try to use filters to add a texture to a plain color (not sure it would respect the colors you wish, and filters are resulting in bitmaps, actually)
You could try adding overlays and changing the colour blend mode.
@GSolutions and @Paddy_CAD thanks for the responses. I'm so new that the learning curve is quite steep for me, especially overlays, blends, and "clipping mask." @David248 I'll try attaching a couple of swatches for reference. As you can see, there are not only different colors, the "grain" is also different for different types of granite. Meanwhile, I'll be educating myself on what all three of you have presented.
Imho, granite is at least 3 color (black mica, white feldspar, greyish quartz, here an additional pink potassic feldspar). Might be difficult to get a good result by overlaying a color to a texture.
The gneissic sample looks simplier.
Did you try the bitmap pattern I was talking about ? (Select image, do object > object to pattern : image then becomes a rectangle filled with a bitmap pattern (open fill and stroke pattern, tab fill) : this pattern can be reused with any other path.